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This Weeks Sermon What is the Kingdom of God: Mustard Seed Matthew - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
This Weeks Sermon What is the Kingdom of God: Mustard Seed Matthew - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
This Weeks Sermon What is the Kingdom of God: Mustard Seed Matthew 13:31-33 What do we know about this Kingdom? A definition No doubt can be entertained that both in the Old Testament and in Jewish literature, ( basileia ), when
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SLIDE 5 This Weeks Sermon “What is the Kingdom of God: Mustard Seed” Matthew 13:31-33
SLIDE 6 What do we know about this Kingdom? A definition
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No doubt can be entertained that both in the Old Testament and in Jewish literature, (basileia), when applied to God, means always the ‘kingly rule’, never ‘the kingdom’ as if it were meant to suggest the territory governed by Him. ~Norval Geldenhuys, The New International Commentary on the New Testament: The Gospel of Luke, (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 1979), 179. SLIDE 8 What is a parable?
SLIDE 9 What is a parable?
- 1. It makes an abstract idea concrete and visible
- 2. They move us from here and now to then and
- 3. They are interesting
- 4. They make us think for ourselves
- 5. It also concealed its meaning to some
- 6. It was spoken
SLIDE 10 What is a parable? Grasp the text in their town
SLIDE 11 Matthew 13:31-33
31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a
mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the
largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”
SLIDE 12 Matthew 13:31-33
33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is
like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds
- f flour until it worked all through the dough.”
SLIDE 13 Parable of the Mustard Seed
SLIDE 14 Matthew 13:31-33
31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a
mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the
largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”
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SLIDE 16 Matthew 13:31-33
31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a
mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the
largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”
SLIDE 17 Ezekiel 31:6
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All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.
SLIDE 18 Small Beginnings
SLIDE 19 Small Beginnings 1) An Idea
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SLIDE 22 Small Beginnings 1) An Idea 2) A witness
SLIDE 23 Small Beginnings 1) An Idea 2) A witness 3) A reformation
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SLIDE 25 Small Beginnings Encouragement
SLIDE 26 Small Beginnings & Transformation
SLIDE 27 Matthew 13:31-33
33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is
like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds
- f flour until it worked all through the dough.”
SLIDE 28 Transformation 1) For the Individual
SLIDE 29 Transformation 1) For the Individual 2) For Women
SLIDE 30 Transformation 1) For the Individual 2) For Women 3) For the Weak and the Ill
SLIDE 31 Transformation 1) For the Individual 2) For Women 3) For the Weak and the Ill 4) For the Elderly
SLIDE 32 Transformation 1) For the Individual 2) For Women 3) For the Weak and the Ill 4) For the Elderly 5) For Children
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Gospel Application
We need to share the good news SLIDE 34
Gospel Application
We need to share the good news Be transformed by Christ